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Sorry for my inactivity around here.

I'm weird in that I'm no good at studying things and retaining them unless I'm really motivated and I haven't... really been motivated lately ;7;'''

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Please, please read!

I just wanted to hopefully get myself some commission action here.

Turns out, my mom is pulling a 180 and now is telling me that she wants me to try to get out of her house.  She’s threatening to pack my stuff and kick me out.  It would be easy, considering all I own are some consoles, a computer and some clothes.

I really need to start making money, and I am willing to work hard for it.  Please, please, consider commissioning art from me?  I always put my all into my work and I get it done quickly and efficiently. 

I am willing to draw pictures for all little as 5$ paypal.  I just really am doing anything I can to get any amount of money.

You can see my art at My Deviantart and also on my Art Blog

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Sentence of the day.

Если вселенная расширяется, то во чтоона расширяется?

If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

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Russian slang of the day.

драть

драть v ipf [drat’]  : To annoy. Literally to scratch, to rip.

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Russian slang word of the day.

Ржать (to crack up, to laugh)

An informal alternative for the word “смея́ться”.

“Тепе́рь весь класс бу́дет ржать на́до мной!” (Now everyone in the class will be laughing at me).

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Lesson #5.5 - Adjectival declensions: The instrumental

This is the penultimate post on adjective declensions!

If the noun is in the instrumental, it follows of course, that the adjective describing it must also be in the instrumental.

Instrumental singular adjectives

Adjectives describing masculine/neuter nouns:

Unstressed: -ым

UNLESS their stem ends in г, к, х, ж, ч, ш, щ (see first spelling rule), then the ending is -им

e.g. посешать музей с молодым иностранным (английским) туристом to visit the museum with a young foreign (English) tourist

Stressed: -ым

e.g. с молодым туристом

All soft adjectives take ending -им

e.g. с прежним директором with the former director

Adjectives describing feminine nouns:

Unstressed: -ой

UNLESS the stem ends in ж, ч, ш, щ, ц (remember the second spelling rule), in which case the ending is-ей

e.g. фильм с хорошей английской актрисой the film with the good English actress

Stressed: -ой

e.g. он работает с молодой англичанкой he works with a young Englishwoman

Soft adjectives: -ей

e.g. он работает с прежней учительницей he works with a former teacher

Instrumental plural adjectives

Endings are the same in all three genders.

Stressed and unstressed adjectives: -ыми

UNLESS their stem ends in г, к, х, ж, ч, ш, щ (see first spelling rule)

Examples of the ending -ыми:

гид в музее с молодыми туристами the guide is at the museum with the young tourists

гуд посещает театр с иностранными актрисами the guide visits the theatre with foreign actresses

секретарь вошёл с важными письмами the secretary came in with important letters

The dative plural adjective ending is -ими  if:

the adjective’s stem ends in г, к, х, ж, ч, ш, щ (see first spelling rule)

the adjective is soft (e.g. синий blue)

Examples of the ending -ими:

гид в музее с английскими туристами the guide is in the museum with the English tourists

он работает с прежними политиками he works with former politicians

мы отдыхаем с нашими друзьями we are on holiday with our friends

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Russian slang of the day.

ты меня придолбил

ты меня придолбил expr [ty menja pridolbil] : You’re getting on my nerves.

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Breakthru Film’s Oscar-winning claymation of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf

I’ve found it! I doubt whether its presence on Youtube is entirely legal, because a while ago I found a four-part video, but it was taken down later because it breached copyright claims, so watch it while you can!

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i present you the highlight of the show

how bad can i be from the russian dub

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Matryoshka (Russian cover)

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Sentence of the day.

Обними меня.

Give me a hug.

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A scene of the Leningrad siege “Killing the German beast”.

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Russian USSR Sparkling Wine (Champagne) by mbell1975 on Flickr.

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Two photographs taken at the 1903 Costume Ball. The theme was people of the seventeenth century: Nicholas went as Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Alexandra Feodorovna as his first wife Maria Miloslavskaya.

I have always found it odd that Alexandra chose to go as Maria Miloslavskaya instead of Natalya Narishkina, the mother of Peter the Great. Both of Maria Miloslavskaya’s sons were sickly. I would think that someone as superstitious as Alexandra was would have felt it ominous to dress as a Tsaritsa with sick sons when she herself had not yet born a son!  

This was the last magnificent court ball given in the Russian Empire. Alexandra Feodorovna meant to re-instate court functions in 1914 in honor of her daughters, but it was not to be.

Sources: Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie and The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna by Baroness Buxhoeveden.

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СССР Bolshevik Cavalry Hat

Is it okay that I’m laughing…? The hat just looks so funny orz

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Nastya.

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